Book Preview “Kamahl! Are you okay?” The barbarian waved Chainer off and dropped the rest of the way down to the ground, trying to evade the pollen. With his face half-buried in mulch, Kamahl coughed the pollen out and tried to suck clear forest air in. Chainer hesitated. He didn’t want to leave Kamahl in … Read more
Book Preview The detonation rocked Kamahl back. The light was bright enough that he could see through his eyelids as the edge of the energy brushed him. The crowd was stunned into silence. The magic ignited the spore cloud and the explosion sped back to the mole, devouring it as the molds detonated in sympathy … Read more
Book Preview MASQUERADE CYCLE • BOOK III “Where in the nine hells is everyone?” Haddad muttered as the small group of men and wagons tramped through the night. “Are we lost again?” His feet disturbed a mound of stones collected at the bottom of the crumbling hillside. The land seemed dead. Successive seasons of cold … Read more
Book Preview MASQUERADE CYCLE • BOOK II The ever-gray sky of Rath darkened from pearl to slate before the agent moved. He’d spent a day and a night in his hiding place, molded into a crevice between two large trees. His hooded shroud took on the color and texture of bark, and the special unguent … Read more
Book Preview MASQUERADE CYCLE • BOOK I Years later, Atalla could remember every moment of the night he saw the ship that flew. It was early, at least two hours before morningsinging. The sky still held the pale yellow of dawn, though darker streaks showed where the deeper orange of full daylight was beginning to … Read more
Book Preview INVASION CYCLE • BOOK III It all came down to this: two men kneeling side by side before Yawgmoth. These were no mere men, of course. One was a virtual god. His long, ash-blond hair spread across the stone, and his powerstone eyes were cast in deep shadow. Urza Planeswalker had first opened … Read more
Book Preview INVASION CYCLE • BOOK II Every Claw, Every Fang Multani traced the damage done by the ray cannon blast. The bolt had struck Weatherlight’s hull where the figurehead should have been. It had torn a wide gash through seven inches of solid magnigoth wood and had vaporized the first forecastle rib. In the … Read more
Book Preview INVASION CYCLE • BOOK I White clouds fled through blue skies. The sea chanted fearfully below. Waves crowded shoulder to shoulder and shoved each other. Gray land crouched at the edge of Dominaria, hiding itself in veils of yellow steam. Evil hung in the heavens. Something was coming, something horrible, and it would … Read more
Book Preview Barrin paused in the classroom’s open doorway, his charitable mood fading. Barely an hour returned to the Tolarian Academy, the master mage had decided to walk a quick tour of the main building before retiring, a habit he formed over his many years as the academy’s chief administrator. Tonight it possessed the added … Read more
Book Preview Urza says he’s sane. Perhaps he is. Measures of sanity among planeswalkers are hard to come by. He has lived for over three thousand years. He heals by merely willing it. With a thought, he steps from world to world to world. His very appearance is a matter of convenience, clothes and even … Read more
Book Preview His journey had begun in the clouds, riding the winds in search of a place remembered but no longer known. He’d found the place, as he’d found it before, by following the ancient glyphs an ancient folk had carved into the land, glyphs that had endured millennia of neglect and the cataclysmic finale … Read more
Book Preview ARTIFACT CYCLE • BOOK I It was the night before the end of the world. The two armies had gathered on opposite sides of a blasted vale. Once this had been a verdant valley, its wide plain shaped by a wide, meandering stream, its flanking hills blanketed by thick groves of oak, blanchwood, … Read more